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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2: From May, 1848, to May, 1852, Selected From the Records
Desirous to render the occupation Of New Mexico by the United States troops subservient to the advancement of science, and to make known the vegetation of a region which had scarcely been visited by a naturalist, Dr. Engelmann and myself, with the cooperation of one or two friends who patronized the enterprise, induced Mr. Fendler to un dertake a botanical exploration Of the country around Santa F e. In execution of this plan, Mr. Fendler left Fort Leavenworth, on the Mis souri, on the 10th of August, 1846, with a military train, be having been allowed by the Secretary of War a free transportation for him self, his luggage, and collections.
Mr. Fendler travelled the well-beaten track of the Santa F trad ers to the Arkansas, and then followed'that river up to Bent's Fort, which he reached on the 5th of September. On the 25th of Septem ber the Arkansas was crossed, four miles above Bent's Fort, and the westerly course was now changed to a southwestern direction, through an arid and very barren region, where the shrubby Atriplex was the most characteristic plant, and furnished almost the only fuel to be Oh tained. Thus far the country was a comparatively level, or rather rolling, prairie, rising gradually from one thousand to more than four thousand feet above the sea. But on Sept. 27th, the base Of the moun tain chain was reached, which is an outlier of the Rocky Mountains.
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